Subversion—Open and Covert
The Easter week end is traditionally a great occasion for trade union and political party conferences, and this year was no exception. Apart, of course, from the annual jamboree of the Communist Party, the tone was fairly moderate by recent standards. The General Secretary of the Shop Workers Union went so far as to say that “Trade Union negotiators desire nothing more than to get off the treadmill of wages and prices and on to the escalator of rising output, real wages and earnings.” This didn’t prevent most speakers from refusing to contemplate any wage restraint.
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